I cope with this on a project by project basis. While my GRs are generally OK, the substitution issue requires that I tweak the GR a bit to make sure the Faders line up with the tracks I want to write some automation on (typically volume). I wish Cubase didn’t behave this way. IMHO, it is a flaw in the program and, apparently, one of long-standing concern.
While the “banks” do work to a degree, Cubase always seems to substitute what’s currently in the Project with what is in the GR file. As a result, each project has to be tweaked to make the GR automate things. It can get very confusing and the OM is very opaque on the topic.
In some ideal world, I’d be able to select channels, right click, and from a menu choose, “assign channels to controller” and somehow Cubase would “know” to assign the faders on the MIDI Controller to the tracks. (or something like that – pass the duchy on the left hand side
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That or some kind of DANTE-like assignment grid that featured a simple cascade assign…
Maybe not exactly this, but something like this.
One day…